Palmer fires Nazi slur at LNP members

Date: November 11 2012

Billionaire Clive Palmer has reportedly likened actions by parts of the Liberal National Party (LNP) in Queensland to those of the Nazis in the lead-up to World War II.

The broadside from the major LNP donor comes after the party suspended his membership on late Friday, following Mr Palmer's call for the sacking of two state ministers, allegations that the government cooked the books and after he referred to some of its members as crooks.

The entrepreneur has lodged legal action against Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney and the co-ordinator general over the rejection of his Waratah Coal project as a preferred tenderer for a multi billion-dollar development in central Queensland.

Mr Palmer accused Mr Seeney of bullying by ordering an audit of his mining operations.

He described the action as a misuse of power comparable to the disregard Nazis held for the courts in the lead-up to WWII.

"It was extraordinary to me that any government in Australia would use stormtrooper tactics to get at a person just because they have gone to court to get a decision," Mr Palmer told the newspaper.

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